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Mastering Data to Win: Understand your instruments to make the right calls & win races
The modern racing yacht is awash with onboard instruments and electronics giving enormous amounts of data. But few people fully understand how to get the most out of all the information at their fingertips, let alone make it useful for the team to enable them to win races.
But ace navigators, Mark Chisnell and Gilberto Pastorella, do – both have worked with professional sailing programmes all over the world – from America’s Cup to Maxi, ORC / IRC and one-design fleets.
In Mastering Data to Win they take the reader through the from understanding the concepts, ensuring accuracy, using the data to win races and then post-race analysis to find performance gains.
By mastering your instruments you can make the right calls every time and know for certain when to tack, which shift to look out for and how the tide can work with or against you. With colour diagrams and photographs throughout, this instructional guide turns information into excellence.
Accessible to those new to racing, it also has a depth of information that will transform the performance of even professional sailors.
Table of Contents
The Authors
Foreword
Introduction
The Role of the Navigator
The Key Elements of Data On Board
Setting Up an Instrument System
Some Instrument Techniques
Instrument Techniques Using The Polar Table
Data Collection & Performance Analysis
What’s Next?
But ace navigators, Mark Chisnell and Gilberto Pastorella, do – both have worked with professional sailing programmes all over the world – from America’s Cup to Maxi, ORC / IRC and one-design fleets.
In Mastering Data to Win they take the reader through the from understanding the concepts, ensuring accuracy, using the data to win races and then post-race analysis to find performance gains.
By mastering your instruments you can make the right calls every time and know for certain when to tack, which shift to look out for and how the tide can work with or against you. With colour diagrams and photographs throughout, this instructional guide turns information into excellence.
Accessible to those new to racing, it also has a depth of information that will transform the performance of even professional sailors.
Table of Contents
The Authors
Foreword
Introduction
The Role of the Navigator
The Key Elements of Data On Board
Setting Up an Instrument System
Some Instrument Techniques
Instrument Techniques Using The Polar Table
Data Collection & Performance Analysis
What’s Next?
96 pages, Paperback
Published October 19, 2023
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About the author
Mark Chisnell
36 books61 followersMark Chisnell has written 16 books, they’ve been translated into five languages and topped sales and download charts in the USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Mark writes suspense and mystery thrillers, technical books on the art and science of racing sailboats, along with non-fiction books and journalism on travel, sport and technology for some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers, including Esquire and the Guardian.
Mark began his writing with travel stories, while hitch-hiking around the world. He got a job sweeping up and making tea with the British America’s Cup team in Australia in 1987 to earn the money to get home. He worked his way onto the boat as navigator and has sailed and worked with six more America’s Cup teams since then. He’s also won three World Championships in sailing, and currently runs the Technical Innovation Group at Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie’s British America’s Cup team.
Mark now lives by a river in the UK with his wife, two young sons and a dog – whenever he gets a couple of minutes peace he can usually be found reading a Jack Reacher novel, or the latest from Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.
Mark writes suspense and mystery thrillers, technical books on the art and science of racing sailboats, along with non-fiction books and journalism on travel, sport and technology for some of the world's leading magazines and newspapers, including Esquire and the Guardian.
Mark began his writing with travel stories, while hitch-hiking around the world. He got a job sweeping up and making tea with the British America’s Cup team in Australia in 1987 to earn the money to get home. He worked his way onto the boat as navigator and has sailed and worked with six more America’s Cup teams since then. He’s also won three World Championships in sailing, and currently runs the Technical Innovation Group at Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie’s British America’s Cup team.
Mark now lives by a river in the UK with his wife, two young sons and a dog – whenever he gets a couple of minutes peace he can usually be found reading a Jack Reacher novel, or the latest from Michael Lewis or Malcolm Gladwell.
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